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Quotes About Shadow

Bit from the dolorous groan on high a shadow of smoke appeared, And human bones rattling together in the smoke and stamping The nether abyss, and gnashing in fierce despair, and panting in sobs, Thick, short, incessant, bursting, sobbing, deep despairing, stamping, Struggling to utter the voice of man, to take features of man, To take the limbs of man.
~ blake william iv
hello there, the angel from my nightmare. the shadow in the backgroung of the mourge. the unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. we could live like jack and sally if we want.
~ blink 182
Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains
~ Bob Ross
When we learn to dwell in the secret place of the Most High, we're positioned to discover the key to true kingdom fruitfulness. Reproductive power is unlocked in the shadow of the Almighty.
~ Bob Sorge
A corner draft fluttered the flameAnd the white fever of temptationUpswept its angel wings that castA cruciform shadow.
~ Boris Pasternak
I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind—" "I thought fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom." "It's the same thing. Humility.
~ Harper Lee
That was the one thing that made me think, well, this may be the shadow of a beginning. That jury took a few hours. An inevitable verdict, maybe, but usually it takes 'em just a few minutes. This time—" he broke off and looked at us. "You might like to know that there was one fellow who took considerable wearing down—in the beginning he was rarin' for an outright acquittal.
~ Harper Lee
so great was his feeling of rightness that he could ignore the dark shadow of the future.
~ Harry Harrison
Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off.
~ Haruki Murakami
My shadow is only half of what it should be. Everyone has their shortcomings.
~ Haruki Murakami
What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.
~ Haruki Murakami
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It's like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura
~ Haruki Murakami
Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.
~ Haruki Murakami
It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.
~ Haruki Murakami
I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.
~ Haruki Murakami
Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never be able to outrun. Nobody can shake off their own shadow.
~ Haruki Murakami
That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.
~ Haruki Murakami
Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.
~ Haruki Murakami
Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone's asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there's darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.
~ Haruki Murakami
Your problem is that your shadow is a bit - how should I put it? Faint. I thought this the first time I laid eyes on you, that the shadow you cast on the ground is only half as dark as that of ordinary people… What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow
~ Haruki Murakami
I was alive in the past, and I'm alive now, sitting here talking to you. But what you see here isn't really me. This is just a shadow of who I was. You are really living. But I'm not. Even these words I'm saying right now sound empty, like an echo.
~ Haruki Murakami
It is as evil as we are positive...the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive... The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil.
~ Haruki Murakami
Each memory was now the shadow of a shadow of a shadow. The only thing that remained tangible to him was the sense of absence.
~ Haruki Murakami
the mind is lost when the shadow dies.
~ Haruki Murakami